1. This letter of recommendation to Harvard in 1936 seems strange to our eyes but it follows a common form of that time used for Jewish students -- assuring the school that the applicant is the right type of Jew ("one of the outstanding products of that Race.") https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1331275274596519945 …
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4. I don't think you can understand mid- 20th century academia without understanding it was super-WASP and very carefully exercising a gatekeeping role about admitting in people who were marginally white. Some more examples.pic.twitter.com/Lt5J0Q7Omi
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5. Anyways, the letters of recommendation from the past are very eye-opening about the actual social systems and biases that shaped hiring & the gatekeeping around ethnicity. Would be curious to know if letters of current era reveal the same.
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6. Appending this here because original tweet (with screenshot) has been deleted:https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1331271124278267907 …
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Watch turn of the century immigrants slowly become
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Its like Jesus story of the good Samaritan: this guy was, get this, a goood Samaritan!
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